Tag: trees

Firethorn (Pyracantha) Tree Espalier. The Firethorn is an
evergreen plant that is easy to grow and provides seasonal interest and
berries. An espalier is a fruit tree or ornamental shrub whose branches
are trained to
grow flat against a wall, supported on a lattice or a framework of
stakes. Photo credit: JulineB.

Could plants move in connection with the moon?
There is a possibility in the correlation between the moon and the movement of leaves.
Peter
Barlow of the University of Bristol made the discovery while attempting
to determine why the leaves of some plants seemed to move up and down
during the night despite the lack of sunlight.

By analyzing the
movements of bean plants over the last 100 years and matching them up
with estimates of the local gravitational influence of the moon he was
able to determine that these movements seemed to correspond extremely
well to the moon’s gravity.

After gathering as much data as he could on
the subject Barlow hypothesized that water motion within the joints
of the leaves may be responsible for this peculiar form of movement. The phenomenon has since come to be referred to as “leaftide”.